Real Do-It-Yourself games

Every fancied your hand at developing your own computer games? Tired with the current batch of dull, uninspired PC titles? Well, RealNetworks have made available some games development tools for all of you budding Peter Molyneux's out there. The RealArcade developer service will give users the tools and services to package, distribute and sell PC games online. More than 40 computer game companies including Valve Software, Sierra Online and Midas Interactive are supporting the scheme. ...more

Google launches Orkut.com for social networking

Google is jumping on the current bandwagon for social networking with the launch of Orkut.com. `to Orkut` is not a word which instantly springs to mind when looking to increase your circle of contacts, although Orkut is the name of one Orkut Buyukkokten who is an employee at Google who developed the system. ...more

IBM engineers spin to turn on atoms

Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, have discovered a method for controlling the interactions of atomic spin that could have far-reaching effects for data storage, circuitry and quantum computing. The discovery revolves around juxtaposing atoms: the researchers found that in lining up a string of manganese atoms, the interaction between their magnetic spins would result in either no net magnetism for even numbers or a net magnetism for odd numbers. This form of binary switching could be used in data storage, by flipping the collective orientation of numbers of magnetically coupled atoms. ...more

IBM goes graffiti crazy

Companies often have some great plans when it comes to publicity. Once in a while, however, along comes a campaign that was obviously a good idea at the time, but starts to pale with the benefit of hindsight. IBM has a new advertisement campaign entitled "Love, Peace and Linux", which sounds harmless enough until you realise that the company has been spraying graffiti all over former hippie haven, San Francisco. ...more

Mobile giants lobby for .mob domain

Giants from the world of mobile phones and technology have teamed up to badger ICANN to create a .mob top level domain name. They say they will set up and run their own registry to manage the . ...more